Hanna found this gem of a post by Sophie Collins at the Guardian on the recent pop psych “study” that is reported to have discovered that stressed-out men prefer heavier women.
Do you like beards? I like beards. But I know plenty of women who don’t. Most adult men I know don’t...

Harpyness guest poster and righteous dude Not Mr. Big recently tipped me to a painfully stupid article from Salt Lake City area news outlet in which a “popular speaker and life coach” claims “Romance novels can be as addictive as pornography.” I laughed at the headline but the...

That picture could easily be me. I was a dirt dog as a kid. There are scores of pictures of me rooting around in sandboxes, gardens, and puddles. One of my happiest childhood memories is when I was nine, playing with my BFF, and us completely coating ourselves with mountains of mud and dirt in...

On my drive home from class last night I caught part of the program On Point with Tom Ashbrook on my NPR station. His guest was Cordelia Fine, psychologist and author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. In the book, Fine’s mission is to expose and...

…because there are a number of recent stories (or “stories”) that deserve a serious barrage of “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” letters-to-the-editor. You can write one, or two, or three! We’re feminists, we support your right to choose at whom you direct...

No time for a real, big-girl
Botero's Mujer Leyendo
post today, which is a shame, because there’s a lot to discuss in these two articles…
Anyway, if you have time, you should check out this discussion between Gail Collins and Stacy Schiff in the Times about using the term “feminist”...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) Two Sisters
I have an older brother who, for more than a decade of my life, was a total asshole to me. From as early as I can remember until he left for college when I was 15, I wished for a sister on a daily basis, thinking that she would be a friend, instead...

There are too many stories out there to cover them all, but some are just too important to ignore, even if we get to them a little later than we’d like.
Findings on a new anti-HIV gel were released on Monday, and more thoroughly presented yesterday. Wife-and-husband team Quarraisha and Salim...

The world of active atheists, agnostics and skeptics is a testosterony place. By “active” I mean those who attend gatherings and conferences about skepticism. Some people I admire in the skeptics’ corner of the blogosphere have been talking about the dearth of women in the community...

Mmmm, tastes like freedom!
The Dude got his business surgically de-activated a couple of years ago, so that ship has sailed for us, but a bet a lot of you might yet have occasion to know a fella who’s on the Pill. No, not that pill. The Pill for Dudes.
What Pill for Dudes, PhDork?
Why, the...

Too big? From wikimedia.
I happened across this article on Stony Brook University’s Feminine Boy Project a couple of months ago, but I couldn’t figure out what to do with other than say “Wow, how horrible! Thank goodness we’ve evolved beyond this kind of bogus ‘medical-minded’...

This is your future.
According to this Scientific American article “It’s Getting Better All The Time:” after age 50, “people” are happier, more satisfied, and easier-going
regardless of whether individuals were employed, had young children at home or lived with a partner.
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